Primates Quotes
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Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.
Studies of reconciliation in primates have demonstrated that if the relationship value increases between two parties they are more willing to make peace.
Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.
It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.
A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.
Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.
We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.
This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak.